Seal for car-doors shipping-receptacles, &amp;c.



1 g as PATENT orator.

Specification of letters Patent.

JOHN J. A. MILLER. OF DENVER, COLORADO.

.SEAL FOR CAR-DOORS. SIIIPI-ING-IKECEPTACLES; 8w.

Patented Aug. 22, 1911.

Applicaticn filed August 15, 1910. SerialNo. 577,307.

This invention relates to improvements in seals for car doors, shippingreceptacles, etc.

' The object of the invention is to )rovide a cheap and simple seal,consisting o a strip of'rhetal or other material of such character thata. second bending of the stri at any one point will break it, one endthe said strip being arranged to engage or interlock in any suitable waywith the other end, mak-v in it necessary to unbend the said end inorder to remove the seal, which operation results in breaking t a sealat the point where it is bent, thereby destroying the same. "This objectis accomplished by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings,in which,

Figure is a plan view of the seal as stamped ou Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the seal bent into position for attachment to the staple of acar door or other object. Fi 3 is a siiziilar view showing-the ends 10ced. Fig. 4. i a plan view of a modified form of seal. l ly. 5 is aperspective vie showing the seal b nt, when secured upon sta lo, theends beiiiiz locked; and Fig. 6 a rent view showing the application ofthe sealto a car door.

Referrin to the accompanying drawings, .-.the numera 1 designates aseal. which may consist of 'a stripof metal or any othe" ma terialsuitable for' the purpose requ red. 40 One end of the strip is providedwith. a ilongitudinal slot 2, while the opposit end thereof is intheform of a book 3. Ai points 'gfihich divide the strip into substantiallythree ual parts, the same is weakened preferably y forming therein atransverse rowv "of perforations 4, and adjacent to the hooked end ofthe stri slits 5 and 6 are cut in from opposite'e gesof the strip to itscenter, and the end of the strip is out or folded on theline between theinner ends of the slits, so that the .edges of the bent portion willstand at right angles tothe edges of the remaining portion of theseal.Ii -other words, the hooked endis given a 56 quarter turn, as shown inFigs. 2. a. d 3, so that the hook 3 will be in position to i cuter theslot"? in the opposite end of the seal. whe: the seal is bent intotriangular iornz, an alter the hook has been passed through the slot itis bent over against the coming accidentally:linhooked and to make itnecessary to unbend it in order to disenga e the two ends of the seal.

transverse slot 7 in one end, the other end. belng termed with a hook 8.By having the transverse slot 7, it is not necessarv to twist the hookend, as in the other forni, and the seal 18 weakened at the bendingpoints by slitt ng the same, as shown at 9.

'ljhe name or initials of the company or individual using the seal maone of the sides thereof, while the number m Lining sides.

tTis seal is constructed must be of such a raarater that it cannot bebent twice at the same point without breaking the same, so that afterthe ends of the seal have been properly connected they cannot bedisconnected without destroying the seal.

In practice, the seal is constructed as shown and bent into the formillustrated in Fig. 2, in which form it is ready to be secured to thestaple 10 of a ear door or crate, as the case may be, by passin eitherone of its free ends through the step e, after which the hooked end ispassed through the slot in the other end and then bent so as to preventits accidental disengagement therefrom, and also, as above stated, tomake it necessary to unbend the same in order to disconnect the twoends. Thus, any attempt at disconnecting the ends of the seal for thepurpose of, removing the same from the staple to which it has beenattached will result in breakin it either at the hooked end or atthereby destroying it.

If desired, the hook may be dis ensed with, and this end of the sealleftPp ain or unhooked.

Having described the invention, what I claim as'new and desire to secureby Letters Patent is:

1. In a seal as specified, a atri of material easily breakable bybending n opposite directions, said strip being bent into a slutable fin ad having a. slot in one end and a hook on the opposite end adaptedto be side ofthe seal both to prevent it from lie-- 11 Fig. 4illustrated a seal having a1 be placed on The metal or other materialfrom which one or the other of the weakened points and of the seal maybe placed on one of the re-,

gassedthroughkaid slot, and bending points the opposite end thereofwhich is bent at ormed by removing; a portion of the maright anglesafter being passed through said terial transversely 0 thelength of thestrip. slot. 2. In a seal as specified, a strip of metal In testimonwhereof I afiix my signature 5 or other materiel.l easily breakable bygendin presence 0 two witnesses.

i in 0 posite llflfitlol'lf sai strip eing b 5115 to iorm substantiallya triangle, the JOHN said bending points beingweakened by per-Witnesses: foratin the strip transversely of its length, G. SARGENTEmo'rr, 10 one en of said seal being-slotted to reeeive ADELLA M. Fowmc.

